@quindicizero Bravissimo Zverev, ma @cobollifla è stato meraviglioso in tutto il torno. Lo aspettiamo al prossimo slam, perche (almeno) uno lo vincerà!
Yesterday's riots in France after the PSG Champions League win are nothing new. We have seen this before. Many times. And every time the conversation stays on the surface, Nobody wants to say what is actually underneath.
France has failed at integration. For decades. And this matters because France is also a former colonial power it brought millions of people from its former colonies into the country, created communities, and then largely left them to figure it out in banlieues with no jobs, no real future, and no genuine sense of belonging.
The numbers tell the story clearly. Second generation immigrants aged 19-29 face 30% unemployment in France nearly 40% if their parents came from Algeria or Morocco compared to 20% for children with both French-born parents. Only 23% of second generation immigrants with African-born parents get a permanent contract for their first job, versus 32% for young workers with French parents. 18 months after signing integration contracts and completing required French courses, 57% of Afghan signatories reported still being unemployed. And the number of Republican Integration Contracts signed actually dropped 10.5% in 2024. The system is not just failing in some areas it is going backwards.
France is consistently rated among the worst countries in the developed world for immigrant integration.
I keep repeating this and I will keep repeating it: integration is the most important thing any country welcoming immigrants must get right. Not the numbers. Not the paperwork. The actual integration language, employment, social inclusion, a real future.
And here is what every country needs to understand. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. But every immigration policy needs to come with clear pros and cons, clear expectations from both sides, and clear consequences. You cannot be too soft open the doors, take no responsibility for what happens next, and then act surprised when the banlieues burn. But you also cannot be drastic mass expulsions, closed borders, zero nuance. Neither extreme works. What works is structure.
Some people integrate fast. Others struggle. That is normal and expected. But if someone arrives in a country and genuinely has nothing no work, no path forward, no sense of place you have created a problem, not solved one. And if someone repeatedly violates the laws of the country that gave them an opportunity, there have to be consequences. Including return. That is not inhumane. That is what a functioning state owes its own citizens.
You cannot demand respect for a system that never included you. But you also cannot keep burning cars in a country that took you in and then blame the country for everything.
Both sides have obligations. And right now in France, neither side is meeting them. The state abandoned these communities for fifty years. And now it harvests the result every time.
Europe needs to learn from this.